Joshua 10:36

36 Yehoshua went up from `Eglon, and all Yisra'el with him, to Hevron; and they fought against it:

Joshua 10:36 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 10:36

And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto
Hebron
Which lay in the hill country, and therefore they are said to go up to it from Eglon, which lay lower; and, according to Bunting {g}, it was sixteen miles from it:

and they fought against it;
it making some resistance at first, and did not surrender at once, as demanded.

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Ibid. (Travels of the Patriarchs p. 96.)

Joshua 10:36 In-Context

34 Yehoshua passed from Lakhish, and all Yisra'el with him, to `Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;

35 and they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lakhish.

36 Yehoshua went up from `Eglon, and all Yisra'el with him, to Hevron; and they fought against it:

37 and they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to `Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were therein.

38 Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to Devir, and fought against it: